One day to go before the series finale of Lost, and my expectations are not high. We will be left with more unanswered questions, which to some people will seem ingenius, to others it will reek of laziness and a lack of creativity.
I wish I could have a bit more of a positive attitude towards this show, but season six so far has just been way too much of a let down. As I have said before, this season really should have been about Ben/Widmore, and what is going on between them, rather than about Jacob, MIB, Dogan, and even more "other others." We had no clue about any of those characters before last season, and it makes the show reek of being made up on the fly instead of being pre planned as it should have been. I can't stand the jarring turn it took from sci fi, to supernatural.
The traumatic episode two weeks ago, in which they killed off Sun, Jin, and Sayid was the kicker. None of these characters were really focused on this season but now, Sayid has become the Muslim man who kills himself via bomb. Sun and Jin's died pointless deaths which felt like something which was written just to create some Joss Whedon style, end of series pointless drama. Jin's death especially stung because he abandoned his daughter. Sun's family is not the most trustworthy, and because of Jin's decision to do what he did, he will now presumably be raised by them. What is going to become of little JiYeon? I think that is going to be something to add to the list of unanswered questions and loose ends that this show won't be tying up.
Right now, I don't see the point in buying the DVDs, or watching reruns knowing the ultimate fate of Sun, Jin and Sayid. Heck, because of these "twists," I think that in five years, Lost will be like Twin Peaks, and be a show that is forgotten because of a badly done conclusion, opposed to Buffy which is now seen as something groundbreaking.
As for the penultimate episode, the passing of the torch scene was a bit too much of a cliche. Jack as the chosen one who will save the island? Way too predictable for this show, most people including the writers seem to not like Jack, and if things are not changed by the final episode I will be disappointed.
In terms of Ben they have written themselves into a corner, it is going to be an ultimate downer if he turns out to be in cahoots with the MIB. However at this point, we know Ben isn't the ultimate evil. They have been dropping anvils about that in the flash sideways this season. His motives for killing Widmore were because truly loved Alex as a daughter. I'm going to hedge my bets that we will get a "ha ha, I was only pretending to be in cahoots with you evil MIB," at some critical point of the series finale. I've seen too many shows and movies using this technique, and nowadays it just doesn't work, especially on a show like Lost.
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